[talk-au] access=destination

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:
> On 15/01/2010, at 8:45 PM, Liz wrote:
>> so perhaps the signs are actually meaningless in law
>> they appear in council minutes so perhaps its a local council job
>
> From my searching, it looks like councils are responsible for putting up these signs and I couldn't find any actual legal definition of what they mean too.
>
> I did find a couple of reports of requests by residents to get them applies to their streets, and those weren't about noise. They were about kids playing on the street and almost getting hit by vehicles, both cars and bicycles.

Interesting, can you post a link? As a cyclist, it never occurred to
me to avoid these streets - if anything, I preferred them, as they
tend to be quiet, and often quite interesting.

For the time being, it might be best to tag them with a specific
"local_traffic_only=yes" or something, so we know exactly what is
being encoded.

Steve